Data Security Jobs in the North of England

Data Security
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Data Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Security over the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 260 367
Rank change year-on-year -49 +107 -29
Permanent jobs citing Data Security 35 133 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.74% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.90% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 29 77 38
10th Percentile £46,750 £35,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £49,749 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -15.56% +8.30%
75th Percentile £68,114 £76,250 £62,833
90th Percentile £87,000 £85,000 £67,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £55,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +21.62% -3.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Data Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,922 14,812 16,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.36% 82.06% 96.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5,408 11,345 7,882
10th Percentile £25,250 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £61,975 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Data Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the North of England

Data Security
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Security in the North of England.

Salary trend for Data Security in the North of England

Data Security
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Security in the North of England

Data Security
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Security within the North of England region over the 6 months to 27 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +41 19 £57,500 +27.78% 99
North West -64 14 £66,367 +15.42% 115
North East +36 2 £65,750 +56.55% 35
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (31.43%) Apache Spark
2 9 (25.71%) Apache
3 4 (11.43%) SAS
4 1 (2.86%) Confluence
4 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) AWS
2 12 (34.29%) Azure
3 9 (25.71%) Amazon S3
3 9 (25.71%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (25.71%) Serverless
4 7 (20.00%) GCP
5 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.86%) OCI
7 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (2.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (25.71%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (17.14%) MongoDB
3 6 (17.14%) Oracle Database
4 5 (14.29%) MySQL
5 4 (11.43%) Data Lake
6 3 (8.57%) Power BI
6 3 (8.57%) Star Schema
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (5.71%) Flink
8 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) GitLab
1 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.71%) Finance
3 7 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (17.14%) Legal
5 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (11.43%) Banking
7 2 (5.71%) Tech for Good
8 1 (2.86%) Advertising
8 1 (2.86%) Back Office
8 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 10 (28.57%) Senior
2 10 (28.57%) Senior Data Engineer
3 8 (22.86%) Data Manager
4 5 (14.29%) Lead
5 4 (11.43%) Data Warehouse Manager
5 4 (11.43%) Resilience Manager
6 3 (8.57%) Architect
6 3 (8.57%) Data Architect
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Architect
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Data Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Principal Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Principal Data Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Applications Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Information Manager
8 1 (2.86%) Lead Data Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Lead Security Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Security Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) Middleware
2 1 (2.86%) .NET
2 1 (2.86%) CSS
2 1 (2.86%) HTML
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (2.86%) Housing Association
3 1 (2.86%) PDA
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
1 3 (8.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (40.00%) Analytics
3 10 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (22.86%) Agile
4 8 (22.86%) Data Migration
4 8 (22.86%) Data Science
4 8 (22.86%) ETL
4 8 (22.86%) Migration
5 7 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 6 (17.14%) Mentoring
7 5 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 5 (14.29%) Decision-Making
7 5 (14.29%) Mathematics
7 5 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
8 4 (11.43%) Commercialisation
8 4 (11.43%) Data Encryption
8 4 (11.43%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 4 (11.43%) Machine Learning
8 4 (11.43%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) Python
1 15 (42.86%) SQL
2 6 (17.14%) Scala
3 1 (2.86%) C#
3 1 (2.86%) Progress 4GL
3 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Degree
2 4 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) CISA
3 1 (2.86%) CISM
3 1 (2.86%) CISSP
3 1 (2.86%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.86%) HND
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.71%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.86%) NIST
3 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) Oracle
2 4 (11.43%) Databricks
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Palantir
2 4 (11.43%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.71%) Cisco
4 1 (2.86%) Capita
4 1 (2.86%) Meraki
4 1 (2.86%) Progress
4 1 (2.86%) SAP